If I marry her without an annulment, would that ruin my chances to be an extraordinary minister of holy Communion and to receive holy Communion? Tampa, Florida. In order for you to marry in a Catholic ceremony, two things would have to happen. You yourself would have to meet with a priest and complete some very simple paperwork regarding your first marriage. As for the woman you seek to marry, her situation is more complicated. That she suffered spousal abuse would be an important factor because it might show that her first husband, from the start, was ill-equipped to marry.
She need not seek this church annulment in the country of Venezuela; canonically, a petitioner may file for a church annulment either in the place where the marriage took place Venezuela, in this case or where the petitioner now lives which I am presuming to be Florida. Were you to marry her without these permissions, that marriage would not be recognized by the Catholic Church.
Second, the scenario presented in the question also prompts a good review. If receiving on the hand, the recipient should side-step, still facing the altar, and consume the Sacred Host before turning to go back to the pew.
Most communion accidents occur because the person begins walking back toward the pew, looking ahead, rather than focusing on receiving our Lord. Better to pause to receive, adore, and consume the Sacred Host, than to rush like in a cafeteria line and risk dropping it.
This belief informs everything the Church does in connection to the Eucharist, recognizing that it is God himself who is present and our response to such accidents should be formed by our personal love of him who created us. This is not a scrupulous activity, but one filed with tenderness, saddened that our Beloved has fallen to the ground. It is our duty to pick him back up and treat his body and blood with all due reverence. The Church's guidelines in this matter highlight the reality of Jesus' presence in the Eucharist.
Tags: Liturgy Sacraments. Support Aleteia! What is unclear however is what is done to the host. This contrasts with the case of the wine, where the instruction is clear. These words immediately follow those above:. If any of the Precious Blood is spilled, the area where the spill occurred should be washed with water, and this water should then be poured into the sacrarium in the sacristy.
The GIRM does not seem to provide any direct guidance regarding the fallen host. Is it purified somewhere and eaten? A consecrated host that cannot be consumed will be disposed of by placing it in water. This water, in turn, is to be poured through the sanctuarium within the sacristy into the ground. Source: How should one dispose of a consecrated host which was placed in the mouth of an ill person who, in the end, was unable to swallow it?
I am suprised that it is not stated in the GIRM, but maybe it was obvious for the authors of this document. Sign up to join this community.
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